Software Engineer - Cloud Engineering

Package Description

Job Requisition: 21431

Band: C

Salary range: Up to £55,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights

Contract type: Permanent

Location: BBC Dock House, Salford

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack .

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

Job introduction

The BBC has a vision to be a modern, digital-led and streamlined organisation that derives the most value from the licence fee and delivers the best for audiences. Our engineering enablement’s goal is to build a platform that lets development teams across the BBC’s cloud estate build reliable and sustainable services fast, and a community that helps constantly improve their practice and results. In your role you will work within a team to improve an established platform and related tooling which is used to deploy hundreds of times a day.

The scope of teams that engineering enablement work with is truly exciting, serving both the BBC Product and Technology Group. The BBC Product Group delivers audience facing product such as News, Sport, iPlayer, Sounds and Bitesize, and the BBC Technology Group covers a vast array of systems including content creation and capture, media transcoding and distribution.

When you join the BBC as a Software Engineer, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced and the work you do matters. Your work will have a direct impact on our millions of audience users across the globe.

As an engineer in our team, you can spend 10% time of your time learning new skills, playing with new technology and developing yourself, because we understand the need to stay up to date and fresh in a constantly changing technical landscape.

We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people's lives.

Interview process

• 90 min interview ( Technical and value based interview)
• Then 30 minute break
• Then 60 min open-book timed exercise.
  
  

Main responsibilities

Within this role you will have the opportunity to shape the creation of automated effective solutions to solve business problems within the BBCs cloud estate. Your solutions will need to scale to support the entire organisation, across hundreds of AWS accounts and thousands of internal users and you will need to be able to adapt and to understand new problem spaces quickly. You will be working within an agile framework helping to adapt team priorities based on business needs.

Over the next couple of years some key projects you could be involved with are:

• Automating the provisioning of AWS Accounts with pre-configured security stances.
• Development of tools to identify risks in the cloud accounts and exposure of these via a centralised online portal.
• Creation of BBC tailored cloud platform products for use across multiple engineering teams.
  
  

Are you the right candidate

Essential

• Experience with various compute environments like containers, AWS Lambda and EC2.
• Experience with AWS networking and service discovery solutions.
• DevOps approach to building and maintaining services.
• Linux system administration experience.
• Solid experience with at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Javascript/Typescript, Java.
• Solid experience of Infrastructure as Code solutions, ideally using CloudFormation.
• Experience actively participating in designing complex solutions, both individually and among small groups of differing technical abilities.
• Demonstrable experience writing, testing and documenting maintainable software within collaborative environments.
  
  

Nice to have

• Hold a current AWS certification.
• Appreciation of the wider AWS Product set.
• Experience with PKI.
• Knowledge of Internet protocols.
• Understanding of mechanisms and tools for building software (package managers, dependency and repository management).
  
  

About The BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk. We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here. Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.